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searches have produced several drawings from different 

 museums, at first, without being aware that there was 

 a doubt. On comparing these with Seba's figure and 

 Shaw's, we are inclined to consider them all as the young 

 or the female of Ant. Pygmea, for the absence of the suc- 

 centorial hoofs, is in this case no criterion. As the question 

 now stands, this species may be omitted; although 

 M. Desmarest states that they have tusks or canines, but 

 upon what authority, we do not know. 



The Memima. (M. Memina, Pen. Schreber.) First 

 noticed by Knox, in his account of Ceylon. It is in length 

 about seventeen inches; in colour, of a cinereous olive, 

 with the throat, breast, and belly white, and the neck, 

 sides, and rump streaked in long bars of the same colour. 

 The ears are rather large and open, and the tail very short. 

 We have seen two individuals of this species alive, but 

 they were in so languid a state, as to leave but little room 

 for remark. This animal is not without beauty, resembling 

 the Java and Napu Musks in gait and manners, and be- 

 longing, we believe, exclusively to Ceylon, where it resides 

 in the Jungle. 



The Java Musks appear to constitute a small family, or, 

 perhaps, only varieties of one species. Pallas and Buffon 

 first noticed them, but SirT. S. Raffles has lately (vol.xiii. 

 Lin. Trans.) given a detailed account of them, as also 

 M. Fred. Cuvier, from whose united descriptions we shall 

 endeavour to extract our notice, with such remarks as we 

 have made on a living specimen. 



The Napu, Raffles (M. Napu, F. Cuvier), is the largest, 

 being about twenty inches long, by thirteen in height. 

 It stands considerably higher behind than at the shoulder. 

 It is of a mottled ferruginous colour on the back, gray varied 

 with white on the sides, and white below and on the inside 

 of the thighs ; tail from two to three inches long, tufted, 

 white below and at the end. A white stripe runs along the 



